Rudolf Meyer (theologian)

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Rudolf Meyer reading out the exam results in 1967

Rudolf Meyer (born September 8, 1909 in Leutzsch , † April 2, 1991 in Jena ) was a German Protestant theologian specializing in the Old Testament.

Life

Meyer studied Protestant theology and received his doctorate in theology in the subject of the Old Testament . His specialty became the Hebrew language . In 1938 he became a private lecturer at the University of Leipzig until he was called up for military service on August 26, 1939. Before that, he declared that he was working at the institute for research into and elimination of the Jewish influence on German church life . In 1947 he became an adjunct professor and in 1948, as successor to Willy Staerk , he was appointed professor of the Old Testament at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . Here he taught generations of theology students in Hebrew, the history of the people of Israel, and Old Testament theology. Along with Church President Kurt Scharf and General Superintendent Walter Brown was him in 1952 by the Theological Faculty of the Humboldt University of Berlin , the honorary doctorate awarded.

Meyer had been a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences since 1959 and a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 1978 .

Works

  • The prophet from Galilee. Study of the image of Jesus in the first three Gospels. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1970 (reprint of the Leipzig 1940 edition).
  • Hebrew text book (Göschen Collection 769 / 769a). Berlin: de Gruyter 1960.
  • Hebrew grammar , de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1992, ISBN 3-11-013694-5 .
  • Tradition and New Creation in Ancient Judaism. Depicted on the history of Pharisaism. With a contribution by H.-F. Weiss: Pharisaism in the light of the tradition of the New Testament. Meeting reports of the Saxon Academy of Sciences, Volume 110, Issue 2. Berlin Akademie-Verlag 1965.
  • Opposition and ambiguity in the ancient Hebrew word and concept formation. Session reports of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class, Volume 120, Issue 5. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1979.
  • On the history and theology of Judaism in the Hellenistic-Roman period. Berlin: Evangelical Publishing House 1989.
  • Hebrew and Aramaic concise dictionary on the Old Testament , founded by Wilhelm Gesenius ; 18th edition ed. by Herbert Donner , Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-25680-6 . (Rudolf Meyer had done the preparatory work for this since 1953 and created the manuscript for the first delivery, which appeared in 1987.)

literature

  • Rudolf Meyer, ed. by Waltraut Bernhardt: Contributions to the history of text and language of the Old Testament. Collected essays . de Gruyter, Berlin New York 1993, ISBN 3-11-013695-3
  • Dirk Schuster: The doctrine of "Aryan" Christianity. The scientific self-image in the Eisenach »Entjudungsinstitut« . V&R Academic, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8471-0716-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas A. Seidel (Ed.): Thuringian ridge walks. Leipzig 1998, p. 109
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt / Main 2003
  3. ↑ Neue Zeit newspaper , February 19, 1952, p. 2
  4. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Rudolf Meyer. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on June 22, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Leutzsch
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1991
Place of death Jena